Metal Gear Solid 2/Peace Walker vs. HD Collection Screen Comparison

Konami has officially announced their plans to release Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and now they have released the first screens showing off the difference in visuals. Showing off a couple screens from Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, you can tell a clear visual difference with sharper textures and a far cleaner picture.

MGS1: Twin Snakes appeared on the Gamecube, as did Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance was also released on the Xbox & PC. And now it's getting HD re-releases on the PS3 & 360, along with MGS3 getting a 3DS makeover

With the exception of the best game in the series (MGS4), it has always been a multiplatform franchise.

Kojima said he wont make ANYMORE exclusives so YES MGS5 on 360 along with 2-3 peace walker and rising. Mgs 4 was the worst imho, worst ending ever with horrible twists trying to tie up all loose ends and make it happy.

@jony_dols: "With the exception of the best game in the series (MGS4), it has always been a multiplatform franchise."

epic lolz if you really think MGS4 is the best game in the series. MGS 1-3 were all FAR superior to MGS4 in pretty much every way apart from graphics. MGS1 is the best in the series IMO, with 3 not far behind, then 2 not far behind, then 4 a distant last.

i *might* pick this up, my PS2 was on its last legs last time i played it 4-5 years ago (its a launch model) so if i want to play them im pretty much out of options atm.

I would be happy to see Peacewalker and 3 updated. MGS1 was on PC, i still have it although widescreen support and higher resolutions would be nice, as would using twin snakes assets and restoring the cutscenes and audio to the original version. Highly unlikely, i know.

2 was on PC as well and in that case, i played it already 6 or 7 years ago in 1080p. The PC version supports full 1920 x 1080.

3 and Peacewalker however have no HD release. In particular i would like MGS3 to be a good conversion.

LOL @fanboys now pretending MGS4 is a bad game just because they didn't get it, despite the fact it's the highest rated, fastest seller, 3rd best seller, the most commented(google's most researched) and the more relevant to the story in the whole franchise.

Calm down kids... Look at it this way: PS3 owners want a Substance/Subsistence like version with trophies and Kojima won't make no more exclusives. This mean we're now all on the same boat waiting for a MGS4 special edition.

I know you people like to feel entitled for bragging rights of things you had made nothing to contribute, but seriously, you guys aren't even making sense attacking MGS4... Or the MGS franchise for that matter.

If you want the "no more PS exclusive" headlines you should be aiming for ZOE because MG has been multiplatform franchise from the first tittle ("Metal Gear" was released for MSX2, NES, MS-DOS, Commodore64, PS2 and Mobile) to the lates announcements ("Metal Gear Rising" was announced for PS3 and X360 from the beggining).

So many ppl pleased to be getting this on 360?? If you really liked MGS you would have bought a PS3 a long time ago.. Don't try to fool people like your excited you only 360 owners don't give a crap about this game coming on 360 you just think its some sort of victory that's how lame you are.

Older games look more pixelated on HD displays because they originally had interlacing as an old-school visual filter

Play nintendo on a an old tube tv then plug it into an HD tv and you'll see what I mean. It clearly looks better on the tube. Same for PS1, PS2, PSP. Any screen shots taken will be inaccurate if displayed on a computer or HD monitor.

yea but twin snakes sucked.... it added too many corny things like snake doing backflips over doors to listen to a conversation. Like since when is a soldier a ninja lol.... Kojima had nothing to do with twin snakes.. they took his earlier vision of mgs1 and tried to add shit to it.

I'll be picking up both collections (MGS, ZoE) for my PS3 since i've played all these games with the exception of the handhelds MGS on PS2.

It just feels more comfortable for me, but I don't see what this fighting is about since people could've played these games back during the PS2 days (before being ported to xbox later in the case of MGS). If you didn't because of some stupid fanboy love/hatred for another console then that was your loss.

Just like its peoples lost this gen for their stupid narrow minded view of not owning more than one console when both are easily affordable.

I'm not happy about it going on the 360 but what can you do? It's all about the mighty dollar these days. Now the only reason I say that about the 360 is because I don't think the games well be appreciated and be looked down appon from it's story and long cut scenes. Just my 2 cents.

i agree, it felt like kojima was driving a stake through my heart when i saw it was released for 360. it sucks because it seems like he is preferring the 360 over the ps3 and what does this mean? future kojima production games will be dumbed down in order to be playable on the 360...now it seems like he is just whoring his games..before these titles were considered a true gem, a "system seller", a fine wine have you. now they are the equivalent of miller lite beers because they are on the 360.

I don't think it's kojima persay, I think it's the big wigs at konami making these decision for him. Remember it's not the 90's or early 00's anymore and want more money. And also remember when he was at microsofts e3 press conference like 2 years ago and he felt out of place so... You know?

That's one of the most elitist statements I've ever read. How does the 360 devalue these games? And why should you even care?

Stop acting like you've been betrayed. I don't remember this sort of reaction from 360 owners when Mass Effect was ported to the PS3. More people can play these games now, and I think to find a problem with that is just petty.

@falcon maybe it is the higher ups but he looks pretty comfortable with that 360 controller something i am not too happy about

@guigsy first off i care because i am a fan, a fan of games a fan of kojima and a fan of innovation. when these games were made as i said before they were considered "system sellers" a "true gem". one of the reasons mgs pw was made was to prove a true mgs console experience can be achieved on a handheld. i am all for bringing that experience from handheld to the console but not to the 360. kojima is one of the few developers that pushes consoles to the limits, he did it with mg1 he did it again with mgs1 and so on with mgs2 and mgs4 you simply CANNOT get that same experience when the game is ported to a console with lesser hardware value. the ps3 is and always will be powerful than the 360. if you make an exclusive for 360 and one for ps3 ground up the ps3 exclusive will most likely be better. why? it is the more POWERFUL console. that is how the 360 devalues ps3 exclusive games

"on with mgs2 and mgs4 you simply CANNOT get that same experience when the game is ported to a console with lesser hardware value"

so mgs2 was ported to the xbox, do u think xbox was lesser hardware than ps2? It is the same fuckin game.

I play plenty of games on both ps3 and x360, and i practically see no differences (often time better on x360 than ps3). What i do see though is that, if a game has a lot of HD cutscene (FF13, MGS4,LA noire,..), QTE, uncompress sound, etc... x360 do suffer because of disc space. If u just want gameplay, even open world game (fall out, RDR, GTA4, Fable 2/3, etc...) x360 can ran them quite well.

Nonetheless, i think both are limited by the amount of RAM they have, except x360 is a little bit more flexible in that case. Ps3 has better CPU (need a lot more work, just to get to the same level/maybe slightly better than x360, which i still have doubt) while x360 has better GPU.

Do u own x360?

After seeing Crysis 2 for console, i think they are very similar in power. I can't believe it looks like that with large scale, lots of interaction, everything is so crisp and realistic. The only game so far that i think have push consoles beyond their limit.

"I don't think the games well be appreciated and be looked down appon from it's story and long cut scenes"

Oh really? I remember ps3 gamers were the first to criticize/hate mgs4 for its long cutscenes saying that the game was more movie than game, I personally loved every bit of the game including cutscenes.

Plus, I don't understand why all the hate on this site is directed towards xbox360 and its fans they are gamers too...I mean seriously they wanted mgs4 so bad they start spreading rumors back then about the game heading to 360 but that never happened... at least they are getting HD version of previous games now what's the harm in that? believe me MGS series is a rare form of game every gamer should experience

@wazzim...Ah no it didn't...contrary to popular belief the MS in MSX did NOT actually stand for MicroSoft. all microsoft did was provide the language for those computers. The Metal Gear you speak of was later ported over to the nintendo entertainment system which then became a hit after that.